🪔 Thursday, August 21, 2025·Ujjain

Daily Panchang

Bhadraba Krishna Trayodashi

Pushya Nakshatra · Moon in Karka

No major festival falls on this tithi.

Panchang

पंचांग

Tithi

Trayodashi

त्रयोदशी

Nakshatra

Pushya

till 00:08 IST

Masa

Bhadraba

Krishna Paksha

Moon sign

Karka

कर्क

Yoga

Vyatipata

☀Sunrise

06:06 IST

☾Sunset

18:56 IST

Karana

Vanija

Rahu Kaal

14:07–15:43

On This Calendar Date

इतिहास में आज

Bharat

1963
South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.

World

2015
Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.
2013
Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.
2007
BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.
1986
A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
1971
Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at San Quentin State Prison in California; the subsequent trial of six inmates was the longest in state history at the time.
1945
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.

Historical events via Wikipedia · On this day

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